Lead Visual Designer

**About Gemic**

**About the Role**

The primary role of a visual designer at Gemic is to help our consultants share their learnings and proposed solutions through visualising evidence, portraying the lives of research participants, and building explanatory models and frameworks that distill our learnings into memorable concepts and ideas.

The nature of our work often calls for outputs and deliverables that clearly articulate what is typically unspoken or unseen; things like social behaviour, belief systems, and relationships with technology. These intangibles shape human experience but often lack a vocabulary and voice.

When not actively working to communicate our work, you will help build and execute the strategy of the Gemic brand. As our work touches on many new digital platforms, we aim to build a coherent system that works across them all while maintaining consistency and quality. You will also champion design internally and develop a strong design culture within the company.

We’re looking for an experienced designer who can:

- Provide consistent design leadership company-wide keeping our brand on point
- Bring a variety of design skills to continually evolve our offerings but keep our image aligned across all deliverables
- Mentor junior designers
- Manage external design resources (e.g. freelancers, third party vendors)
- Have a general orientation to work that is driving a set of solutions without constant oversight
- Be the owner of design perspectives but adept at “client services” mindset when collaborating with colleagues
- Drive brand strategy at Gemic but also the design visuals for our products
- Set the tone (plan and execute) directly through their own production
- Do the strategic work as an active practitioner of design deliverables

The role will be based in our **Berlin** office and serving a global function to the wider company. Please note this is NOT intended as a remote position and you must be located in Berlin (or willing to relocate to Berlin and obtain legal work authorization).

**Key responsibilities**
- Developing the visual communication of client-facing deliverables: Information design and architecture, data visualisation, and graphic presentation of various learnings, analysis and solutions
- Recommending the right deliverable mediums (digital and physical experiences) and presenting creative strategies and solutions to internal teams and clients
- Executing deliverable formats that enrich strategists’ qualitative and quantitative findings—such as websites, videos, graphical presentations, illustrations and GenAI artwork
- Quick ideation and prototyping with multidisciplinary teams
- Visual systems development for the Gemic brand
- Managing freelancer network to optimize the design resource system for more effective staffing
- Oversight of internal design team and freelancers to ensure we deliver excellent quality designs
- Mentoring the development of the internal design team and sharpening skills of consultants
- Acting as owner of the Gemic brand within the company

**Required skills, competencies, and experience**
- 4+ years of practical, professional experience in visual design, including information/data visualisation design and solid experience in web or UX/UI design
- Experience as an in-house designer or cross-functional collaborator.
- Formal education in a relevant field and a general knowledge of graphic design history and current landscape/trends
- Strong proficiency in graphic design tools such as the Adobe Suite, Figma, and ideation and presentation tools such as PowerPoint, Google Slides and Miro.
- Knowledge of other professional tools is essential, such as Microsoft Office (Sharepoint and OneDrive specifically), Google Suite, Notion, Slack, and more
- A good understanding of various interaction models, and the ability to explain them; an ability to use imaginative design metaphors to make different types of web experiences conceivable during ideation/ wireframing phases
- Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, communication, and leadership skills to present your solutions and to build trust and respect within the team
- Exceptional knowledge of the design process and the ability to conduct brainstorming, prototyping and feedback sessions with interdisciplinary teams.
- The ability to quickly and effectively communicate ideas through sketching, diagrams, or visual examples.
- The capability to manage and prioritize multiple work streams and shifting timelines.
- Awareness of the business aspects involving our work, such as business goals, commercial strategies, positioning and vision, and how these aspects influence what we do as designers.
- An excellent eye for detail, ambitious for the quality of your work, and a constant search for excellence.
- Open to go beyond visual communication and helping teams in building narratives and structuring stories.
- Personable, open, engaging, collaborative and a good listener with the patience needed to allow